{"id":285,"date":"2005-06-02T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/06\/make-no-bones-about-it\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T07:21:00","slug":"make-no-bones-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/06\/make-no-bones-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Make No Bones About It"},"content":{"rendered":"


Let’s begin at the end, and the gloriously gory Christian expectation that for saved souls, death is a kind of sleep. All the faithful believers, at the end of time, at the return of the Lord, will rise up again and be made flesh. <\/p>\n

Wikipedia says:<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n
“At the moment of Jesus’ death tombs open and many who are dead waken. After Jesus’ resurrection many of the dead saints come out of their tombs and enter Jerusalem, where they appear to many, according to the gospel of Matthew… Most Christian churches teach that there will be a general resurrection of the dead at “the end of time”.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

One of the scary postulations about GW Bush is that he is a religious fundamentalist who actually believes that screwing up in the middle east and maybe having a nice nuclear war is helping to bring about Jesus’ return, and some high up<\/a> members of the military seem to concur. General Jerry Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, in charge of facilitating intelligence information for Donald Rumsfeld’s “High Value Target Plan,” aimed at hunting down Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Mullah Omar:<\/p>\n

“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”<\/i><\/p>\n

That’s a worrying thought. Just when you thought it was safe to expire into nothingness, that you had your one-way ticket off this troubled planet, that you were finally free from all the crap these destructive ego-maniac crazies can throw at you, all you have to do is believe, and you (and they) will all be back at the dinner table. Damn. Can I be sure I have elimated that last shred of conditioning? I can feel a song coming on<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Now, hear the word of the Lord.<\/p>\n

The toe bone connected to the foot bone,
The foot bone connected to the heel bone,
The heel bone connected to the ankle bone,
The ankle bone connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone connected to the knee bone,
The knee bone connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to the hip bone,
The hip bone connected to the back bone,
The back bone connected to the shoulder bone,
The back bone connected to the neck bone,
The neck bone connected to the head bone,
Now, hear the word of the Lord!<\/p>\n

Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk aroun’,
Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk aroun’
Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk aroun’
Now, hear the word of the Lord!<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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